Liked this so much.
Thank you for the explanation!!! Also, very interesting that some samurai would have some kinda beloved friend/lover? I'm assuming some kind of gay affair?.
A lot of soldiers/men back then we're just gay for some reason, but history doesn't like talking abt that eventhough I'd be really interesting to know of.
Woah this comment was written 10 years ago
Yeah...It's been long...
Basicly it is about *class* ...samurai considered being the elite ...before the fall of the shogunate ...crafts people ...ink stone makers being the third lowest class ..it was a respected art then and is now .,,BUT ..not a rich and reknown household ....sensei broke the stone ..because he wanted the young samurai to inherit his families dojo/business/wealth/marry into money and have heirs ..
But the young samurai is pigheaded and vows to return ..to see/make/love sensei ..
Back in the shogunate period (edo 1800)
It was not strange for samurai to have a BELOVED ...brother/friend/lover...but it was anethema to mix the classes